Kim Fu's Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century peers into the magical, transportive power of short stories.Just a little bit more fantastical or just a slight speculative leap forward. The story is written entirely in dialogue, where most of the stories in the collection are just conventional prose.īut I do think that it tackles very quickly a lot of the themes that the book is interested in right off the bat, about technology and about grief and about worlds that are just slightly different from ours. She thought it was really attention-grabbing in a specific way. It was her idea to put this story at the front. Kim Fu: It was actually my editor, Maisie Cochran at Tin House. You have a story called Pre- Simulation Consultation XF007867 about a character who wants to use virtual reality technology to see their dead mother again but keeps getting denied. How does this story open the tone for the stories that follow? Kim Fu spoke to Shelagh Rogers about writing Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century. The stories weaves elements of magic, sci-fi and horror. It's a fascinating collection of short stories featuring characters dealing with common issues of grief, regret and unhealthy relationships. Her latest book is Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century. Her writing peers into the dark and foreboding side of human nature. Fu writes fiction that makes the mundane extraordinary.
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